- 2015-date: Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
- 2007-2022: Royal Society Research Professor
- 1995-2015: Professor of Natural Philosophy, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- 1992-1995: University Lecturer, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
- 1989-1992: University Assistant Lecturer, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
- 1988-1989: Royal Society University Research Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
- 1985-1995: Junior Research Fellow (1985-1989), Teaching Fellow (1990-1995), Trinity College Cambridge
Research
Mike is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He heads the Soft Matter research group. His current research interests include: flow of colloids, polymers, emulsions, gels and other soft materials; shear-thickening and rheology in dense suspensions; dynamics of soft glasses; flow of liquid crystals; general theories of active matter; cellular locomotion; phase ordering in active and passive systems; statistical mechanics of active particles; and numerous other topics. He recently completed an ERC Advanced Grant called ADNeSP: Active and Driven Systems, Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics.
Prizes and Awards
- 2021: International Member, US National Academy of Sciences
- 2019: International Member, US National Academy of Engineering
- 2016: Bingham Medal, US Society of Rheology
- 2013: Weissenberg Award, European Society of Rheology
- 2009: Dirac Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics
- 2009: Gold Medal, British Society of Rheology
- 2007: Fellow of the Royal Society (London)
- 2005: Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1996: Fellow of the Institute of Physics
- 1994: Prix Franco-Britannique (Paris Academy of Sciences)
- 1991: Maxwell Prize and Medal, Institute of Physics
Publications
Nonequilibrium Steady States in Sheared Binary Fluids
– Physical review letters
(2006)
96,
085701
Glass transitions and shear thickening suspension rheology
– Journal of Rheology
(2005)
49,
237
(doi: 10.1122/1.1814114)
Colloid-stabilized emulsions: Behaviour as the interfacial tension is reduced
– Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
(2005)
17,
s3433
(doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/17/45/031)
Colloidal jamming at interfaces: A route to fluid-bicontinuous gels
– Science (New York, N.Y.)
(2005)
309,
2198
(doi: 10.1126/science.1116589)
Physical and computational scaling issues in lattice Boltzmann simulations of binary fluid mixtures.
– Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
(2005)
363,
1917
(doi: 10.1098/rsta.2005.1619)
Colloidal arrest by capillary forces
– Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
(2005)
17,
s2771
(doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/17/31/001)
Dilatancy, jamming, and the physics of granulation
– Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
(2005)
17,
s2517
(doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/17/24/010)
Integration through transients for Brownian particles under steady shear
– Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
(2005)
17,
S1681
(doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/17/20/003)
Nonadditivity of Polymeric and Charged Surface Interactions: Consequences for Doped Lamellar Phases
– Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
(2005)
21,
5627
(doi: 10.1021/la0501738)
Formation of self-supporting reversible cellular networks in suspensions of colloids and liquid crystals
– Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
(2005)
21,
4921
(doi: 10.1021/la047090w)
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